Coming up next, more extreme heat
and day eight of a flex alert.
But relief and rain are coming our way.
We have your first microclimate forecast.
Lack of trees contribute to urban heat,
where some communities are
just hotter than others.
Details coming up.
Plus, we're learning more tonight about
the fugitive who's nicknamed Fat Leonard.
This business that's been in Del Cerro for
decades has been told they have to leave.
The owner has plans for a new,
huge apartment complex.
A woman with local ties breaks a record.
By climbing 20 peaks in 12 days in
Switzerland and on National Salami Day,
we meet the King of Salami himself.
CBS 8 News Live at 6 starts now.
There are more worries about the power
grid tonight after another hot day and
day eight of a statewide flex alert.
Good evening. I'm Jesse Pagan in for Carlo.
And I'm Marcella Lee.
Once again, that alert is in
effect until 9:00 o'clock tonight.
This heat has led to some
government buildings, schools and
even businesses closing early.
We'll have more on that in just a moment,
but first, chief meteorologist
Caroline Chavez here early with
a first look at your forecast,
which includes rain and lower
temperatures in the next few days.
Carlene. Yeah, we got the heat.
We got the rain.
We got lower temperatures.
Yeah, high winds.
A whole lot's gonna be happening as
we go all the way into the weekend.
So still holding on to the heat for tomorrow.
We will also be talking about a
flex alert that's gonna be around
3:00 PM all the way until 8:00 PM
for tomorrow because the coast is
even expected to get into the 90s.
So talking about hot temperatures still
in the forecast for our Thursday,
then you're noticing that we're backing
off from that as we go into next week.
And that's because we do have a
tropical system that we're keeping
a close eye on that is OK,
is currently a category two hurricane,
but on its closest approach towards us.
It's going to be a tropical storm
and it's gonna be over 100 miles
towards the West of us.
So as we take a look at your
next 5 days across inland areas,
you're looking at likely rain
that's gonna start around 5:00 PM.
Continue all the way into Saturday
and then some lingering showers
possible for Sunday.
Strong, gusty winds are also expected.
High surf and also talking about
some cooler temperatures getting
away from the excessive heat that
we've had over the last week.
So we'll go ahead and take a look at
your complete forecast coming up,
Jesse.
Alright Caroline thank you.
And it is day eight of flex alert across
the state and the request is the same.
Cut back on power and avoid rolling
blackouts. Yesterday demand on
the power grid hit a new record.
CBS 8 Total Sielaff is live in Rancho
Bernardo where several schools there
let kids out early today. Rocio.
Three different schools here in the
Poway Unified School District were
forced to release students early
for the second week in a row after
continuous problems to their AC units.
And this is all happening in the
middle of this excessive heat wave.
And it's impacting not just students
and teachers, but parents too.
Students in several Poway unified
schools are leaving the classroom early.
Very inconvenient.
Rancho Bernardo High School Bernardo
Heights Middle School in Midland
Elementary are sending students home
early for the remainder of this week.
A parent of a student shared
this e-mail with me.
The district says that after
installing a new chiller,
it could not handle the load of
providing air conditioning for both.
Rancho Bernardo High School in
Bernardo Heights Middle School
the issues that the district to
reimplement early release days
Flora Sapona works as a nurse.
Says the changes have made it
difficult to pick up her children.
It's still very difficult.
My husband works nights and he
has to wake up in the middle of
the his sleep time to come pick
up the kids go back home so he'll
have maybe 2 hours of sleep.
Melinda Hunt Tune says she's lucky to work
from home and have a flexible schedule,
but says the issue is impacting
students the most.
The kids have lost so much learning already.
The teachers are already trying
to get kids caught up for two
years now they're trying to get
them caught up with this.
It's just thing after thing.
She's now calling on all.
Parents to attend the district's board
meeting Thursday to address their concerns.
For years has actually been breaking down,
so it's not a new thing.
It's not new to this year.
Last year it's had problems for years,
and I guess just it wasn't budgeted correctly
to have it replaced when it should be.
The excessive heat wave has taken
a toll on the state's power grid.
On Tuesday,
the peak demand hit a new all time record.
California ISO is urging customers to
save electricity during peak hours to
avoid power shortages and blackouts.
In the meantime,
the district says it's bringing in
a second chiller to be installed
to address the issue,
but some parents say the AC units
should have been addressed before
the start of the school year.
There won't be
a bond until 2024. Unfortunately.
We're going to just have to
continually deal with these
kind of issues. All the schools
new Flex alerts could be triggered
as the heat wave continues.
In the meantime, the district is asking
parents for patients as they work to
have running a C or C delappe CBS 8.
Thanks, Rocio San Diego detectives are
asking for your help in finding this man.
Franklin Lambert is wanted for stabbing
and killing 60 year old Edward Maynier.
It happened in the early morning
hours of June 19th, Father's Day,
in a parking lot in the 4400 block
of Convoy St that's just South of
Balboa Ave Lamberth is 5 feet 8
inches tall and weighs 160 pounds.
If you think you see him,
call Crime Stoppers,
the number you see there on your screen.
We're learning more tonight about the
fugitive known as fat liner Leonard.
Francis was awaiting sentencing
for being the mastermind behind
a large Navy corruption scandal,
but he escaped house arrest in
Torrey Highlands over the weekend.
CBS 8 David Godfredson has more
on the international manhunt and
the photos that neighbors captured
before Fat Leonard escaped.
A neighbor gave me these photos,
taken last Wednesday,
of two vehicles with out of state
license plates parked in front
of the house where the fugitive,
known as Fat Leonard,
had been staying under house arrest,
including a Mazda SUV with plates
from Missouri and a Chrysler
van with plates out of Colorado.
On Sunday morning,
Leonard Francis allegedly cut
off the court ordered GPS
tracking device on his ankle.
And escaped house arrest.
He's hard to miss.
6 foot, 2 inches tall, 350 pounds.
The house is in a gated
community called Collins Ranch,
valued at $2.8 million on Zillow.
Francis reportedly lived there with a
nanny and his three teenage children.
This photo shows a white Toyota
Sequoia parked in the driveway.
The SUV that neighbors say
belonged to Fat Leonard,
though the neighbors had no idea who he
was or that he was under house arrest.
Neighbors also told me they saw
Uhaul trucks at the house on Wednesday.
Thursday,
Friday and Saturday during night
time hours reports confirmed by Omar
Castillo with the US Marshall Service,
members of the Fugitive
Task Force spoke
to neighbors and they didn't mention
that they did see U-Haul trucks
coming in and out of the house.
So it sounds like he he's been laying
low and he likely was planning this.
The 58 year old had been under house
arrest for the past four years as a
cooperating witness in the largest
Navy bribery scandal in U.S. history.
In 2018, a prosecutor told the court quote
he has two guards who are positioned 24
hours a day outside of his door that,
if Mr Francis were to try or
attempt to leave, would immediately
contact the Marshall Service.
Francis pleaded guilty in 2015 to bribing
officers in the Navy 7th Fleet with booze,
prostitutes and cash.
In exchange,
the naval officers used their
influence to direct ships to ports.
Serviced by Francis's Singapore
based company,
Francis was facing up to 25 years in
prison at sentencing in two weeks,
but now he's gone.
We believe he definitely
has this in the works and
he's focusing following
getting out of the country
as soon as possible.
Now, the Marshall Service told
us they were using license plate
readers to try and track down those
U hauls that were seen at the house
behind me in Collins ranch here,
but they will not comment on
any of those three vehicles that
were seen outside the house.
We don't know if they're looking
for those vehicles or not.
So I'm trying to get a comment
from them on those vehicles.
Are they look for that Sequoia?
We're not sure.
Alright David, what about the
three teenage kids you mentioned?
Do officials think there with their father?
Presumably with their
their with their father.
But the Marshall Service will
not comment on that either.
Now, I want to reiterate that
the neighbors did not know
this guy was on house arrest.
They didn't know he was a fat Leonard.
But they do tell me they frequently did
see those teenagers outside of the house.
And for the most part,
Fat Leonard stayed inside.
All right, David Godfredson live for
us tonight saying on top of this,
developing an interesting story.
David, thank you.
California is getting ready to distribute
the updated COVID vaccine boosters.
Then you should be able to get one soon.
California leaders say the state
is expected to receive more than a
million doses authorized by the FDA.
The updated booster as will increase immunity
against both the original COVID strain
and protect against New Omicron variants.
They'll replace the old ones and will be
available in the coming days and weeks.
At a time when the need for new
housing has never been greater,
a developer in Del Cerro is proposing
a new six story apartment complex.
But neighbors say the large
structure is moving forward with
no input from the community,
and even the area's council
member was caught off guard.
CBS 8 Steve Price takes a
closer look at the project.
Businesses that have been here for
years have been told they have until
the end of November to get out.
Plans are in the works to tear this place
down and build a huge new apartment complex.
Oscar Ramos just found out
about the plans being cooked up,
and any way you slice it,
it's not good. I'm fat.
Oscar has worked at Madra Liquor
and Deli in Del Cerro for 25 years,
met his wife here,
but now he's being forced out of the way.
This is the plan for where
Madras currently sits.
A6 story apartment complex
with more than 100 units.
People living in the area
declined to talk on camera,
but tell me their concern is that
it will be packed with partying San
Diego State students and they say it's
way too tall for the neighborhood.
Oscar says he's hearing the
same thing from customers.
The neighborhood here,
one apartment here,
the building with Madras and the
one next to it that houses a gym,
which will also be torn down.
On the project are owned by the
Jeff Katz Architectural Corporation,
which has an office in the center that
goes by the name Core Design Group.
I left a business card asking
to speak with Jeff,
but so far no one has gotten back to me.
But check this out.
We spotted a subcontractor walking
around the property with plans,
and sources tell CBS eight
that core wants to move fast,
asking builders for bids right away.
We also reached out to the areas
Council member Raul Campillo,
who sent us this statement, like many.
In the Del Cerro neighborhood,
I just learned of the proposed
housing project.
It is my understanding that the
project is in an early review process.
My staff and I will continue to
gather information from city staff
and share with the Navajo Community
Planning group and residents.
All the kids like the picture.
Oscar,
who's made thousands of pizzas
over the years, knows it's cheesy,
but he's still hoping the owners will
change their mind and let Madra stay.
Everybody's fine and just say, hey,
the best picture here in San Diego.
I don't know what you think.
And all the customers happy
because I'm making the picture
special for everybody in Del Cerro,
Steve Price CBS8.